Luke 16:3
The manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig and too ashamed to beg.
Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.
“The manager said within himself, ‘What will I do, seeing that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don’t have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg.
And the steward said within himself, What shall I do, seeing that my lord taketh away the stewardship from me? I have not strength to dig; to beg I am ashamed.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- said
- Luke 18:4; Esther 6:6
- What
- Luke 12:17; Isaiah 10:3; Jeremiah 5:31; Hosea 9:5; Acts 9:6
- I cannot
- Proverbs 13:4; Proverbs 15:19; Proverbs 18:9; Proverbs 19:15; Proverbs 21:25, 26; Proverbs 24:30–34; Proverbs 26:13–16; Proverbs 27:23–27; Proverbs 29:21; 2 Thessalonians 3:11
- to beg
- Luke 16:20, 22; Proverbs 20:4; Mark 10:46; John 9:8; Acts 3:2